The Necronomicon is one of Charlotte Aulin's Tomes in Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls. It contains magic for summoning powerful evil beings and can drive people to insanity.
Item Data[]
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| An incomplete copy of a grimoire created by a mad poet. It contains magic for summoning powerful evil beings and can easily drive any regular person insane. | Attrib: Dark, Atropos |
ATK +195, Dark +300 |
Rarity: ★★★★★ Summon: Precious Gem (5★) |
Special: Rapid Obsidian II | ||||
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| Sends forth a flurry of projectiles. Increases firing time, hacking chunks out of enemies' life bars. | Attrib: Dark |
Cooldown: 55 sec |
Find: Attached to Necronomicon |
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Gallery[]
Necronomicon as the main menu of Castlevania games released for the Nintendo 64.
Trivia[]
- The Necronomicon or Kitab al Azif was created by H. P. Lovecraft for his "Cthulhu Mythos". A sendup to the real-life "black books", the tome has in turn inspired many other eldritch tomes in fiction.
- In Lovecraft's stories, the book is just a mundane, rather rare medieval text. Instead, it's what it reveals about Humanity's place in the universe that drives the reader mad, not some inherent magical quality of the book itself.
- The "powerful evil beings" referred to in the description are the Old Ones (Great Old Ones, Outer Gods, and Elder Things, among others), alien deities who can bend reality to their whim and cause humans to go insane. One such being is Cthulhu, which got its name switched with Malachi in English localizations of Castlevania titles.
- The Necronomicon book appears in both Castlevania (N64) and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness as the main menu of the game.